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I have been doing some research (and development) around virtualized malware sandboxes, being the question, “how easy is for malware to detect such an environment” the most important one, I turned to a tool called Pafish (Paranoid Fish).

There aren’t any silver bullets that will protect a WordPress installation against every single attack, but adding a full featured IDPS solution like Suricata, is a good step in protecting not only that “all too many times vulnerable” WordPress installation but also other services like SSH.

Recently, one e-Mail that was sent to one of my colleagues caught my attention. The message was quite believable but there were some little subtleties that gave it away. First step was to get the attachment out of the message and do an initial analysis.

After installing Suricata, some fine tuning of the network interface(s) used in the traffic capture is required to ensure every ounce of performance is extracted from the new IDPS installation. Those configurations need to be persisted when the system is power cycled. To do that on a Enterprise Linux based OS (e.g. RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.) one can leverage the /sbin/ifup-local script.

In a world where many strive to find instant happiness and gratification in one nighters, through Facebook likes, Twitter retweets and the ramp for limelight that YouTube views are known for, this quote from Erich F. Bender is as up to date as it was in 1968 when his book, “Helga”, was published.